ELA+5+Lesson+22

Topic Lesson 22: //**The Birchmark House**//

Common Core Standards RL 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. W5.9a Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will use text based clues to infer and predict. 2. Students will identify theme of a story. 2. Students will write a paragraph comparing and contrasting characters.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poetry
 * __Oh, Brother... Oh, Sister (American Girl),__ by Brooks Whitney
 * __Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia,__ by Sylvia Dolsen
 * __Bears,__ by Daniel Wood
 * "Glory," by Nicki Thomure
 * "Bear in There," by Shel SIlverstein
 * "Teddy Bear," by A. A. Milne

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Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 573. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "Sibling Rivalry" or "Knowing the Right Actions."
 * Research additional information about bears. Using text-based details, discuss the dangers of bears and how to avoid being harmed.

Assessments

1. Practice Workbook, pages 253-254 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T129 and R18. 3. Weekly Test, 22.5-22.6

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